Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives have arrested a former Polk County
man and charged him with raping at least two women in Polk County in 2000.

Former Polk County resident Johnny Mac Evans,
DOB 12/11/49, currently of Port Orange, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday,
May 20, 2003, and charged by warrant with two counts Sexual Battery and
two counts Kidnapping.

The suspect was arrested at his place of
employment in Daytona Beach. He was booked-in to the Volusia County jail
system on the Polk warrant. He also is facing additional charges from that
jurisdiction (contact Daytona Police Department for additional information
on other charges). He eventually will be brought back to Polk
County to face the Polk charges. He was booked-in under no bond.

During the lengthy investigation, detectives
determined that on May 10, 2000, Evans sexually battered a 23-year-old
self-admitted prostitute from the Orlando area after picking her up in
Orlando and driving her to a grove in the Northeast area of Polk County.

Detectives also determined that on May 31,
2000, Evans sexually battered a 38-year-old Lakeland woman after picking
her up in a local bar and driving her to a grove area in the Northeast
area of the county. DNA evidence taken at the time of the sexual
battery incidents provided a break in the cases when a match linking Evans
to both cases was made in April of 2003.